And, Finally!

[omorka]

Cobweb is off the blocking pins and done! Once again, I'm too lazy to actually put in the photos, so here are some links. The shiny stuff in the first two photos is some foam insulation board that I bought instead of actual knitters' blocking board 'cause I was cheap, and blocking on the family bed is not an option. (I have since obtained a futon that I could technically use, but it still seems less than ideal.)

So I bought three skeins of that lovely, soft Madil Kid Seta in that silver-grey color when I started this thing, back in August '04. (Yes, I've been working on it that long. No, I haven't been working on it continually for that long.) I don't remember when I ran out of the first one. I ran out of the second one with perhaps six yards left just before the edging started - and then I couldn't find the third skein. I turned my stash boxes upside-down, I plowed through every bag and bin that had anything yarn-related in it - it just wasn't there. Finally I decided I was misremembering getting the third skein, and berated myself for making such a n00b error as to underbuy yarn. I returned to the LYS where I'd bought it, hoping to myself that getting the wrong dye lot wouldn't be so terrible if it were just the edging - and discovered that they no longer carry Kid Seta at all. (They had two lonely little balls of it in a cranberry-red, and that was it. Mind you, they weren't clearancing it out; they're too cheap for that. They just hadn't ordered any more in months, and didn't plan to ever do so again.) So I picked up a ball of Rowan Kidsilk Haze in a color that was pretty close, but not close enough that it looked like I was just color-blind and couldn't see that they were different. It's a soft grey, too, but it's a golden-grey. In natural light, the effect of the rim of one around the body of the other faintly resembles sunlight from behind a fluffy cloud. It's pretty, although not what I had planned for. Unfortunately, the Rowan yarn has a distinctly different texture, despite identical fiber content - it's noticeably pricklier and less flowing. Maybe their silk content is scroopier or something.

I had about a third of the applied i-cord left to go when I found the last ball of the Kid Seta sitting in one of my stash boxes. On top of two balls of Berocco Suede, which I know I took out when I was looking for it. In its original bag with the receipt. I blame gremlins. :-/

Anyway, it's done, and I have a skein of really nice yarn and about two-thirds of s skein of very fluffy but slightly prickly yarn left over, which I need to figure out what to do with.


Edit: I mentioned this somewhere in a previous post, but in the interest of giving credit where it's due, many thanks to the lovely emmacrew for the pattern! *yay!*

Comments

[bkwrrm-tx.livejournal.com]

SOOO pretty!

I've been meaning to ask - how is your MiL doing?

[omorka.livejournal.com]

She's about the same as before. They've moved her into a rehabilitation facility- basically a nursing home with more real nurses - to do physical therapy until she's ready to learn to walk on the prosthetic. She hasn't gotten any worse, and her color is much better now than it was, she's breathing better and doesn't seem to be having fluid buildup or unexplained pains anymore - but she is still not significantly stronger now than she was three weeks ago. She has trouble shifting her own weight, can't really sit up without assistance, and has trouble holding a pen to sign her name.

Still, she's mentally all there, and that's something.

I went to see her yesterday (I don't go in every day, unlike the Spouse), and we talked a little bit about things like what she wants to do with her car (she's still not sure, and we didn't have time for a long discussion because we got there late). She's talking about wanting more mobility, so maybe she's starting to see convalescing is not doing her much good. She has also agreed that she should probably go to therapy once she's out, to deal with the emotional repercussions of all this, which I see as a positive step - although we'll see if she follows through on it or not.

[greeneyedpagan.livejournal.com]

Beautiful job, sweetie! Can't wait to see it in person.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's lovely! Worth the time it took, I'd say.

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

The contrast edge works quite nicely! I haven't compared the two yarns side by side, so I've always thought of them as being near-twins, but after reading this I did and huh. I love it when the cheaper one is nicer.

One skein can make a really nice lace scarf, by the way. I once did a Myrna-Stahman style scarf (with ribbing at the back of the neck and lace tails) in feather-and-fan for my mother-in-law, on size 3 needles if memory serves.